Authorities in Lake County have retrieved a car that crashed through a guardrail and plunged into Lake Erie just east of Mentor Beach Park.

Sheriff’s Deputies as well as Mentor-on-the-Lake Police and Firefighters were called out early Friday to Twilight Drive where they found the car on the other side of large rocks along the shoreline.

The driver, who was already outside of the car, was rescued from the water and taken to a local hospital.

Over the weekend the Lake County Sheriff’s Office assisted by a local towing company removed the vehicle from the lake.